Sometimes the simplest innovations can make the biggest impact in agriculture. In the mountains that make up the division between Laos and Thailand, some 30,000 subsistence farmers survive by planting ...

Traditionally thought of as a warm climate crop, some varieties of rice can also thrive in temperate regions, including the northeastern U.S. One rice farm in Vermont has successfully implemented the ...

NEW DELHI, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Ample monsoon rains have accelerated the planting of summer-sown rice in India, according to the latest farm ministry data, after a slow start to the sowing season that ...